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Monday, March 18, 2013

Everyone got to meet the New and Returning KISW.COM ROCK GIRLS! An awesome time was had! Hosted by the always fun Bj Shea and his team. It all went down at the Back Stage Bar in Tacoma! I'm liking this lineup! Hope you all do as well.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

This Nikon Camera looks really awesome. I was thinking of getting the D7000.
So good I waited.

The arrival of the 24MP D7100 comes two-and-a-half years after the announcement of its predecessor the D7000,
and it's a pretty serious upgrade. Significantly, Nikon Europe's
presentation of the camera describes the D7100 as the company's
'flagship DX model', and omitted mention of the D300S in the company's
DSLR lineup. Certainly, the gap between the D7100 and D600 now leaves
little obvious room for a 'D400.'
It was only a matter of time before 24MP resolution became standard
across Nikon's entire range of DX-format APS-C DSLRs, and lo and behold -
the 24MP D7100 is the latest in the series, but this isn't just the
sensor from a D5200 packaged a newer body. In fact, this would be a fundamental misunderstanding of the new camera.
The critical thing here is that despite the fact that the D7100 is
Nikon's third DX-format 24MP DSLR, its sensor is new, and unique in
Nikon's stable. In a first for Nikon, the D7100's sensor lacks an
optical low-pass filter (OLPF). The D800E, Nikon's highest-resolution DSLR has the effect of its OLPF 'cancelled out', but the D7100, like the Pentax K-5 IIs,
omits it altogether. The result should be higher resolution than is
possible from the conventional 24MP sensors in the D5200 and D3200,
and Nikon clearly feels comfortable with the associated higher risk of
moiré in fine patterns - one of the few black marks against the 36MP
D800E when we tested it last year.